Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Coptic

LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.

Required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board upon arrival at a port in the United States.

S.S. Coptic, sailing from Yokohama June 7th, 1895 arriving at Port of San Francisco, June 24, 1895.

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single*, Occupation, Nationality, Last Residence, Final Destination in the US, By whom was passage paid?, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US

Please scroll to view all the columns.

  
 1* Del Medico  Antonio   40y3m  M No  Journalist   Hungarian Budapest  Europe      self    70 No
 2* Chas James  Alsham    48y0m  M No  Photographer English   India     New York    self    89 No
 3  Tsunejiro   Ishii     23y8m  M No  Student      Jap.      Kanagawa  San Fran    self    30 No
 4  Zentaro     Isagawa   42y1m  M Yes Student      Jap.      Kanagawa  San Fran    self    33 No
 5* Magokichi   Shino     47y3m  M Yes Student      Jap.      Kanagawa  San Fran    self    40 yes
 6  Tsunegaro   Uyeda     18y3m  M No  Student      Jap.      Osaka     San Fran    self    30 no
 7* Zenosuke    Uchi?ama  14y5m  M No  Student      Jap.      Aichi     San Fran    self    55 No
 8* Kojiro      Yasui     29y5m  M Yes Student      Jap.      Aichi     San Fran    self    50 yes
 9  Konsuke     Takata    25y8m  M Yes Student      Jap.      Kanagawa  San Fran    self    35 No
10  Shigijiro   Hoshizaki 30y7m  M Yes Student      Jap.      Kanagawa  San Fran    self    32 No
11  Kaichiro    Yamaguchi 27y11m M Yes Student      Jap.      Tokushima San Fran    self    35 No
12  Hirosaburo  Fujita    32y1m  M Yes Merchant     Jap.      Tokyo     San Fran    self    40 No
13* wife        Fujita                                                   
14* Mrs Azume   Fuku      28y9m  F Yes wife         Jap.      Tokyo     San Fran    husband    No
15* Moriichiro  Ogawa     27y9m  M No  servant      Jap.      Shizuoka  New York            30 No
16* T.          Ikeda     29y0m  M Yes Merch        Jap.      Miyazaki  Los Angeles self    70 No

                  sailing from Honolulu June 17, 1895

17* Harold Hyde Parker    28y6m  M No  None         English   Honolulu  England      self  100 yes


    
Transcriber's Notes:
There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
In the heading of the Married or Single column, "or Single" has been crossed out.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not 
included in the table:
 Able to Read & Write=yes 
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco  
 Whether having a ticket to final destination= yes (except 1, 2, 16, 17)
 Whether going to join Relative or Friend=No
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no 
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.

Passenger Notes:
1  It appears that the first and last names of this passenger may have been 
   reversed.  He has no ticket to final destination.
2  has no ticket to final destination.
5  has been to San Francisco once 1893.  He has no ticket to final destination.
7  surname is Uchigama or Uchiyama.
8  has been to San Francisco 4 times, last time April, 1894.
13 is listed merely as "and wife" on line 12.
14 occupation is "wife of Mrs. Fuku."  Manifest clearly says Mrs. but must 
   mean Mr.
15 occupation is personal servant of Mr J M McDonough.  Passage was paid by
   Mr Mc Donough.
16 has no ticket to final destination.
17 has been to New York.  He has no ticket to final destination.
 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 106-107.

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